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This is one of those rare instances where I do something sort of vaguely like an auto biographical joke. I recently began working out and, being the very skinny person I am, let’s just say my initial starting weights were not that impressive. Now that I’m on week 7 of my training routine, I’m lifting two or three times more than I started with. Unfortunately, that still isn’t a lot compared to people that actually have functioning human bodies.

There is still a subset of the population I can make look like a bunch of chumps, though: newborns.

I go down to the maternity ward and start screaming at the nearest baby, “Bro! Do you even lift!?” The answer, invariably, is “No.” Or at least what I think is “no” in baby language. Those kids can’t even speak English, it’s no wonder they can’t even get to the gym.

While I recognize the humor here, I’m still proud of myself for making steps to improve, as anyone doing this sort of thing should. I know an awful lot of people that give up when they are not immediately amazing at something or that start eating crappy again when, after the first month of their diet, they only lose 4 or 5 pounds instead of the 30 they’d like to drop. My advice to those of you interested in self improvement: never give up. The hardest part of doing anything is the first real step, once you’ve got that you need to keep going no matter what. Never stop. Whether you want to be an artist or a writer, or whether you want to be the best clown the world has ever known, never give up.

Eventually, the feeling of resigned irritation at “having to do something” becomes a kind of joy for “getting to do something”.

It’s a good feeling.

Anyway, Friday we’ll get to some more mythology and get away from the same colors I’ve been using for the last four updates! hah!

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Aww poor K!
I’d suggest not focusing on the weight one can lift…
(actually I’d suggest running and climbing… more “natural” exercises)
Then again I could rant about how too much exercising is just as bad as too little…. but I’m too tired to rant for once…right now..as it is I can barely type without typos.

‘Eventually, the feeling of resigned irritation at “having to do something” becomes a kind of joy for “getting to do something”.’ aww… beautiful sentence. Thanks for this encouraging post, K. I know what you mean – I started running last year. At first I’d drag myself out and I’d only go for 5 minutes. Now I use a 30min run as an enjoyable “break” for homework, and on days where I have enough free time to spoil myself, go for a second or third run. The world needs more of this self-improvement attitude!

I know, I know, everyone’s got their own body issues.
If it makes you feel better about someone you can probably beat up, who can also probably beat up a newborn… I have a chronic illness. I’m not very old, but two years ago, I was trying to explain to people how awesome it was to be able to run. Not a 5k, not a marathon, but five steps. But I totally did it, five whole steps of running. I’ve moved from spending all day in bed, to being able to stand for twenty minutes at a time. I can carry my own groceries. It’s exciting!
Only compare you to you. You can do twice what you used to! Just enjoy your own improvement, and screw all those people who can lift a truck but don’t have a webcomic. We’re all good at our own things, right? And tell cat-god that at least there’s weight on the bars.